osf1 man page for rm

rm(1)							      General Commands Manual							     rm(1)

NAME
       rm - Removes (unlinks) files or directories

SYNOPSIS
       rm [-efirR] [--] file...

STANDARDS
       Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows:

       rm: XCU5.0

       Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags.

OPTIONS
       [Tru64 UNIX]  Displays a message after deleting each file.  Does not prompt before removing a file that does not have write permission set,
       and does not display an error message if a specified file does not exist. If you specify both -f and -i when invoking rm, the  option  that
       is  specified  last on the command line takes effect.  Prompts you before deleting each file (interactive). When you use both -i and -r, rm
       also prompts for removing each file, then the directory. If you specify both -f and -i with rm, the last one  on  the  command  line  takes
       effect.	 Permits  recursive removal of directories and their contents (for cases where file is a directory).  Permits recursive removal of
       directories and their contents (for cases where file is a directory, same as -r).  [Tru64 UNIX]	Indicates that all arguments following	it
       are to be treated as file names.  This allows you to specify file names starting with a - (dash).

OPERANDS
       Path name of a file or directory to be removed.

DESCRIPTION
       The rm command removes the entries for the specified files from a directory.

       If  file  is of the directory type: If you specify neither -R or -r, rm writes a diagnostic message to standard error, does nothing further
       with file, and goes on to any remaining files.  If -f is not specified and either of the following is true, rm writes a prompt to  standard
       error and reads a line from standard input: The permissions of file do not permit writing and standard input is a terminal The -i option is
       specified

	      If the response is affirmative, rm does nothing further with the current file and goes on to any remaining files.  (The same actions
	      are  taken  if  -f  is specified and file is not of the directory type.)	For each entry contained in file, other than (dot) or (dot
	      dot) entries, the four steps listed here (1-3) are taken with the entry as if it were a file argument.

       [Tru64 UNIX]  If an entry is the last link to a file, it is destroyed. To remove a file, you must have  write  permission  for  its  parent
       directory,  but	need  neither  read  nor write permission for the file itself.	If the sticky bit on the directory is set, you must be the
       owner of the file or superuser.

       If a file has no write permission and standard input is a terminal or the -i option is specified, rm displays the file permission code  and
       reads  a line from standard input.  If that line begins with y, or the locale's equivalent of a y, rm deletes the file.	If the response is
       anything else, rm does nothing to that file and continues with the next specified file.

       The LC_MESSAGES variable determines the locale's equivalent of y or n (for yes/no queries).

       The -i option causes rm to prompt and read the standard input even if the standard input is not a terminal.  In the absence of -i, however,
       the mode prompting is not done when the standard input is not a terminal.

RESTRICTIONS
       It is an error to specify . (dot) or ..	(dot dot) as the final path name component of file, although these entries may be removed with the
       -r or -R options.

EXIT STATUS
       The following exit values are returned: If the -f option was not specified, all the named directory entries were  removed;  otherwise,  all
       the existing named directory entries were removed.  An error occurred.

EXAMPLES
       To delete a file, enter: rm myfile

	      If there is another link to this file, then the file remains under that name, but myfile is removed. If myfile is the only link, the
	      file itself is deleted.  To delete a file silently, enter: rm -f core

	      This removes core without asking any questions or displaying any error messages. This is normally used in shell procedures.  It pre-
	      vents  confusing messages from being displayed when deleting files that may or may not exist.  To delete files interactively, enter:
	      rm -i mydir/*

	      After each file name is displayed, enter the affirmative response to remove the file; press <Return> (or	anything  other  than  the
	      affirmative response) to retain the file.  To delete a directory tree interactively, enter: rm -ir manual

	      This recursively removes the contents of all subdirectories of manual, then removes manual itself, asking if you want to remove each
	      file and directory.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       The following environment variables affect the execution of rm: Provides a default value for the internationalization  variables  that  are
       unset or null. If LANG is unset or null, the corresponding value from the default locale is used.  If any of the internationalization vari-
       ables contain an invalid setting, the utility behaves as if none of the variables had been defined.  If set to a  non-empty  string  value,
       overrides  the  values  of  all	the  other  internationalization variables.  Determines the locale for the behavior of ranges, equivalence
       classes, and multicharacter collating elements used in the extended regular expression defined  for  the  yesexpr  locale  keyword  in  the
       LC_MESSAGES  category.  Determines the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-
       byte as opposed to multibyte characters in arguments).

	      Determines the behavior of character classes in regular expressions used in the extended regular espression defined for the  yesexpr
	      locale  keyword  in  the	LC_MESSAGES category.  Determines the locale for the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to
	      standard error.  Determines the location of message catalogues for the processing of LC_MESSAGES.

SEE ALSO
       Commands:  ln(1), mv(1), rmdir(1)

       Functions:  rmdir(2), unlink(2), remove(3)

       Standards:  standards(5)

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